Dir: Jonathan Mostow
2003
**
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the
first film without James Cameron at the helm felt like just another cash in
rather than a proper continuation of the Terminator/John Connor story. It
wouldn't have been a Terminator film without Arnold Schwarzenegger but the
loss of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor hurt the film badly, especially as
the character was written out of the story quite poorly. Edward Furlong was
also a big loss, his own fault really as he did actually begin filming but was
let go after his addictions effected the production. I've
nothing against Nick Stahl, he just isn't John Connor and nor does he
resemble Furlong in any shape or form. Jonathan Mostow isn't a bad
director but he wasn't ready for Terminator, after the success of the second
film, I'm surprised that he was asked, that James Cameron had
no involvement or that the budget wasn't as big in comparison.
To its credit it was nice to see the story finally hit the promised apocalyptic conclusion, Schwarzenegger
was still on good form, I like Claire Danes very much and the introduction of
the T-X (played by Kristanna Loken) was a fantastic direction for the
franchise. Unfortunately it lacked the sci-fi intelligence of
the previous films, the characters weren't as immediately likable and
it was more like the cheap action film the franchise had risen above. It
doesn't even feel like it's a Terminator film and maybe after TerminatorGenisys it is better left forgotten.
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